Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky

Career

He participated in five Russian championships (All Russian Masters Tournament). In 1908, he drew a match with Frank Marshall (+2 –2 =2) in Warsaw. In 1911, he tied for 1st–2nd with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Street St. Petersburg.

In 1913, he lost both games of an exhibition mini-match to José Raúl Capablanca in Street St. Petersburg.

In 1927, he took 2nd, behind Sorokin, in Tiflis (Tbilisi). In June 1941, he played in the semifinals of the Soviet championship in Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-Donu), which were interrupted by the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union.

In 1945, he took 14th in Baku (United Research Services-ch sf). In 1946, he tied for 16–17th in Tbilisi (United Research Services-ch sf).

In 1949, he tied for 14–15th in Vilnius (United Research Services-ch sf).

He was awarded the International Master title in 1950.

Achievements

• He was a four-time winner of the Kiev championship (1900, 1902, 1903, and 1906). In 1901 he took 15th in Moscow (2nd RUS-church Mikhail Chigorin won). In 1903, he took 15th in Kiev (3rd RUS-church Chigorin won). In 1906, he tied for 8–10th in Sankt St. Petersburg (4th RUS-church Gersz Salwe won). In 1907/08, he tied for 8–9th in Łódź (5th RUS-church Akiba Rubinstein won). In 1909, he took 4th in Vilna (Vilnius) (6th RUS-church Rubinstein won). In tournaments, he took 7th at Street St. Petersburg 1901 (Lebedev won). In 1907, he tied for 11–12th in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) (Rubinstein won). In 1907 he won, ahead of Benjamin Blumenfeld and Georg Marco, in Moscow. In 1907, he took 3rd in Moscow (Chigorin won). In 1908, he took 4th in Moscow, as (Vladimir Nenarokov won). In 1908, he took 11th in Prague (Oldřich Duras and Carl Schlechter won). In 1909, he finished 13th in Street St. Petersburg, but defeated co-tournament winners Emanuel Lasker (the world champion at the time) and Rubinstein in their individual games. In 1910, he took 4th in Street St. Petersburg (Sergey von Freymann, Lebedev and Grigory Levenfish won). In 1910, he tied for 7–8th in Hamburg (17th Dictionary of Scientific Biography Kongress. Schlechter won). In 1911, he took 22nd in Carlsbad (Richard Teichmann won). In 1921, he tied for 7–8th in Moscow (Grigoriev won). In 1923, he tied for 3rd–5th in Petrograd (2nd United Research Services-church Peter Romanovsky won). In 1924, he tied for 10–11th in Moscow (3rd United Research Services-church Efim Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he took 5th in Leningrad (Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he took 20th in Moscow (international event. Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he tied for 5–7th in Moscow (Sergeev won). In 1927, he tied for 3rd–4th in Moscow (5th United Research Services-church Fedor Bohatyrchuk and Romanovsky won). In 1930, he tied for 3rd–5th in Moscow (Abram Rabinovich won). In 1931, he won the 2nd Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 1933, he took 19th in Leningrad (8th United Research Services-church Mikhail Botvinnik won). In 1938, he tied for 13–17th in Kiev (United Research Services-ch sf. Vasily Panov won). In November 1942, he took 15th in Moscow-ch (Vasily Smyslov won). In 1944, he tied for 15–16th in Moscow (United Research Services-ch sf. Alexander Kotov won). In 1947, he tied for 2nd–4th in Yerevan (7th ARM-church Igor Bondarevsky won playoff).